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What is "PMC"? I am only aware of that three-letter-acronym (TLA) being used for "private military contractors", and didn't see any definition of it in the pare

by nickff 4y ago

What is "PMC"? I am only aware of that three-letter-acronym (TLA) being used for "private military contractors", and didn't see any definition of it in the parent comment. On a broader level, could we all just define our acronyms the first time we use them in a thread? Acronyms save very little time, and add a lot of confusion. edit: I thought about this more, and am now guessing you mean 'private management consultants"; is this correct?

Analemma_ 4y ago
Professional-managerial class. Originally it was a term in Marxist and paleoconservative analysis to refer to an emerging class of workers who do not own the means of production (and hence are not "capital" per se) but have ended up de facto doing all the management of capital because of the distributed power and ownership structures endemic to modern society (and so are not quite the proletariat either). Colloquially (as the parent is using it) it is used derisively to refer to busybody white-collar workers who produce nothing of value and seem to exist only to further bureaucratic obstruction.
dsfyu404ed 4y ago
"professional managerial class" which is basically interchangeable with "petite bourgeois" in a lot of contexts.
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weeblewobble 4y ago
Professional managerial class. Generally used derisively to refer to people with high paid jobs who serve the interests of the wealthy.
- Waterluvian 4y ago
  Seems like a lazy way of saying, “anyone I identify as serving someone or some cause I don’t like.”
  - jvm___ 4y ago
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- seydor 4y ago
  I thought it meant PubMed Central which would be fitting here
  - op00to 4y ago
    those fatcats in PubMed with their hog legs on the neck of the proletariat!
__MatrixMan__ 4y ago
When congress took out all those PPA loans and then forgave them, they used the new money to pay the PMC to further their interests. Looks like the NIH is a similar story of corruption.

by nickff 4y ago

Analemma_ 4y ago

Professional-managerial class. Originally it was a term in Marxist and paleoconservative analysis to refer to an emerging class of workers who do not own the means of production (and hence are not "capital" per se) but have ended up de facto doing all the management of capital because of the distributed power and ownership structures endemic to modern society (and so are not quite the proletariat either). Colloquially (as the parent is using it) it is used derisively to refer to busybody white-collar workers who produce nothing of value and seem to exist only to further bureaucratic obstruction.

dsfyu404ed 4y ago

"professional managerial class" which is basically interchangeable with "petite bourgeois" in a lot of contexts.

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weeblewobble 4y ago

Professional managerial class. Generally used derisively to refer to people with high paid jobs who serve the interests of the wealthy.

Waterluvian 4y ago
Seems like a lazy way of saying, “anyone I identify as serving someone or some cause I don’t like.”
- jvm___ 4y ago
  [flagged]
seydor 4y ago
I thought it meant PubMed Central which would be fitting here
- op00to 4y ago
  those fatcats in PubMed with their hog legs on the neck of the proletariat!

__MatrixMan__ 4y ago

When congress took out all those PPA loans and then forgave them, they used the new money to pay the PMC to further their interests. Looks like the NIH is a similar story of corruption.